Advice for a New Beaded Jewelry Crafter?
Michaels is a great place to find beads and equipment. Also Fire Mountain gems and Beads will send you a free catalog if you go to their website. I sometimes use beads for scrapbooking.
Throwing a Princess Theme Party?
Using inexpensive feather boas as decorations would be super cute! Also rhinestones on the cake, laid on the table (sort of like confetti), or even little bowls of them everywhere would fit the theme. Also, I believe you can find chandelier wall stickies at...
Sources of Sewing Material Scraps?
Have you tried garage sales? I couldnt believe how many bags of scraps my mom sold at hers.
Shell Craft Advice?
Beacons or Alenes might work. Both of these can be found at the craft dept. of Wal-mart.
Ideas for an End of Summer Pampering Pool Party?
I recently threw a watermelon party for my daughter. I made the invitations, goodie bags, and cupcakes. One thing I thought about doing is blowing up red balloons and using a black marker to make seeds and tying them with green curling ribbon. The cupcakes...
Ideas for a Sweet Sixteen Masquerade Party with Theme: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
I am thinking of doing this myself. I will go to my bakery shop and ask for petits fours (teeny tiny cakes) with Eat Me written on them. Then go to Hobby Lobby and find tiny little bottles and make labels that say Drink Me with kool-aid inside. I am not sure...
Making Trim for a Dollhouse?
I also used balsa wood to trim my daughters dollhouse. It can be found in very small strips at Michaels or Hobby Lobby. (I also used it to make a frame around a tiny bulletin board then cut out the mini index pics that you get when you have photos printed.)
Crafts Made With CDs?
The art teacher at the school where I work uses them every year to let each student decorate for a christmas ornament to hang on the tree in our foyer. Lots of schools have websites where you can contact them to ask.
Themes for 2nd Birthday Party?
For my two year old girls party, I used an ice cream theme. It is very easy to find treats for goodie bags to go along. I also found a huge ice cream cone penny bank to use as decoration on ebay. I found a cake pan in ice cream shape at Michaels.
On-line Sites for Scrapbook Enhancements?
There are tons of great websites. www.basicgrey.com and www.houseof3.com give freebies occassionally. I also use www.twopeasinabucket.com and www.cosmocricket.com www.jamieslay.blogspot.com for several links.
Toddler Birthday Party Ideas?
I have done a pinwheel party. I made little ones for each invitation. Each guest received a little pinwheel with a thank you tag attached with cute ribbon. Huge pinwheels for decoration are easy to find as well as teeny tiny ones for cupcake decoration. Or...
Go Diego Go Centerpieces?
I have done this before with metal pails, but really any container that would hide the styrofoam would work. I have even used little felt Easter baskets found in the dollar aisle at Target before. I covered mine with crinkle paper like you use in gift baskets...
Making a Fence and Cactus Decoration from Cardboard?
Do you have access to a projector like those used in a classroom? I find a black and white photo (usually in a coloring book or teacher clip art book-maybe your word processing software clip art) and print it onto transparency. Then use the projector so that...
Planning a Cupcake Themed 1st Birthday Party?
Use a cupcake liner shaped container and make a domed shaped arrangement out of white carnations or pom-pom like flowers. Lots of die cut machines have a cupcake shape which could be used for invitations and goodie bags, etc.
